Game-board.



0f P. BREITHUT.

CAME BOARD.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 24, 1912.

1,096,823. Patented May 19, 1914.

vir-1111 OSCAR P. BRETTHUT, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

GAME-nonni).

Speotcation of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1914.

Application filed April 24, 1912. Serial No. 692,881.

T 0 au wnomit may concern.'

Be it known that I, GSGAR P. BnErrHU'r, citizen of the United States,residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Boards, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to game apparatus, and has as its object toprovlde a gameboard upon which a hi hly interesting game may be playedresemb ing to a certain extent, the games of billiards and pool.

The invention aims among other things to provide a garneboard,` the gameto be played upon which will require considerable skill on the part ofthe players.

The gameboard embodying the present invention is of that type having asurface over which game projectiles are to be propelled and whichembodies pockets and side and end cushions extending between thepockets, and one feature of the invention resides in so constructing thecushions that they may be manufactured at a low cost and yet wi l 'besufliciently lively to permit of ditiicult cushion shots being made.

Another feature of the invention resides in the provision of means forpreventing the projectiles jumping the table.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing de scription and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is apers ective view of the gameboard or table em odying the presentinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through thecue constituting apart of the game apparatus. Fig. 3 is a horizontalsectlonal View on the line 3-3 of F ig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawin bythe same reference characters.-

n the accompanyin drawings, the base or bottom of the game oard or tableis indicated by the numeral 1, its upper face constituting the surfaceover which the game projectiles are to b e propelled. Rails 2 upstandfrom the bottom 1 at the lateral edges thereof and rails 3 extend abovethe surface of the bottom l at the end-edges thereof.

The table may be supported upon legs 4 or it .may be disposed uponanother table or any other suitable support, depending chiefly upon thedimensions of the table. The bottom of the board has its playing surfacecut away at each corner of thc table to form pockets 5 and similarpockets (i are provided at each side of the table at a point midwaybetween the pockets 5.

A cushion is mounted upon each of the ralls 3 and extends between thecorrespondlng corner ockets 5 and similar cushions are mounte on theside rails 2 and extend between the said corner pockets and the sidepockets 6. Each of the rails above referred to is in the form of alength of resilient wire indicated at 7 and having its ends bent to formeyes 8. Screws or bolts 9 are secured through the eyes 8 and into orthrough the rail 2 and 3 upon which the cushion is supported. The wirecomprising each of the cushions above referred to is bent at an angle asat 10 between its intermediate portion and each of its terminal eyes 8so that when the cushion is secured in lace upon the respective rail theintermediate portion of the wire forming the cushion will be spaced fromthe inner face of the rail.

The game-pieces or projectiles which are to be propelled across theboard or table are in the nature of flat-sided circular disks 11 ofwhich there are sixteen, each of these disks having upon its upper facea numeral 12 denoting its value as a game-piece. There -is also provideda disk 13 which in size and shape corresponds to the disk 1l and thisdisk 13.is designed to serve the same purpose as the eue ball in a gameof billiards or ool.

n order to prevent the game-pieces or projectiles 11 from jumping thetable` which would be likely to occur if a hard shot were made, guardrails are mounted one at each side of the table and one at each endthereof and are so mounted that while normally they are out of the wayof the players using the table they may bc readily swung up so as toierform the function stated.

Eac of thi` end-rails is indicated by the numeral 14 and is secured atits ends to the freey ends of arms 15 which are pivoted by means of abolt 1G to the side rails 2 at points adjacent their ends. The pivot 16for each of the arms 15 passes through a eoneaVo-eonvex washer 17 whichis resilient and which serves to also 'Frictionally bind the pivotedends of tlu` arms l5 as to hohl these arms in upright position when therail Il is in use.

By referring to Fig. 1 of the drawing it will be observed that wheneither end rail is in use', the arms 15 Stand substantially verticallyand the rail extends above the endcushion 7 When these rails are not inuse, the arms are swung` outwardly and downwardly so as to position therail supported thereby beneath the lower edgeof the respective end-rail3. Each of the side guard rails is indicated by the numeral 18 and-issupported by the pivoted arms 19 correspondin'gto the arms 15. Thesearms 19 are pivoted at their ends to hars 20 secured one upon each ofthe side rails 2. When the rails 18 arenot in use they lie beneath therespective bars 20 but when it is desired to use this rail at eitherside of the table, the

saine is swung-up to assume about thev position assumed by t-he elevatedrail 14 in Fig. 1 of the drawing. j

The cue embodying the presentinvention and illustrated in Fig. 2 of t-hedrawing includes a tubular body 21 havinv one end reduced as at 22.. Arod 23 having a tip 24,

.is slidably mounted in the body 2l and ay spring 25 upon this rod bearsat Aone end against the inner end of the tip 24 and at its: other endagainst the shoulder formed in the reduced. end 22 of the said tubularbody. Therod 23 is provided at its end opposite the end at which the tip24 is located wit-lr a handle 26 and in using the cue the handle 26 isgrasped and the rod 23 is pulled rearwardly whereby to retract the tip24. The end of the tip 24 is then placed in close proximity to thegame-piece to be propelled and the handle 26 is released. The spring 25will then act, as will be readily understood, to forcibly propel theprojectile across the surface of thetable.

In using the' game apparatus herein described the game pieces l1 arearranged in two rows extending across the table substantially' on a linebetween the ends of the side pockets 6. In so arranging the game-piecesno care is taken to place them with the numbers thereon in anyparticular order. After the game-pieces 11 have been propcrly arranged,the gaine-piece 13 is disposed about in the posit-ion shown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawingand is propelled by the use of the cue shown in Fig. 2against one or the other of the cushions 7 as indicated in dotted playeris skilful the game-piece 13, in rebounding from the side cushion 7after it has been propelled, will strike one or another ofthe-,game-pieces in the adjacent row and drive it or another of thepieces into one of the pockets. Should the player succeed in pocketingone of the game-pieces, he

'is allowed a second shot. Should the player fail to make t-he attemptedshot, the next player will attempt such a shot as he may desire to makeand after the second player has finished his play, the first player willagain attempt to play the object piece in one or another of the pockets.

It will of course be understood that the n'ianner of playingthe game maybe varied andthat the game apparatus may be used in playing variousgaines resembling billiards or pool.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is v In agame apparatus-of the class described, a game board having a banking`rail, larms swingingly mounted one at each end of the rail, and a gua-rdrail secured between the free ends of the arms, said arms being soproportioned that in one position the guard rail lies beneath and formsa continuation of the main rail, while in the other position it extendsabove and forms a continuation of the main rail.

Invtestimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses. y

OSCAR I. BREITHUT. [L.s.l Witnesses:

B. TICE BREITHUT, R. E. PIPER.

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